The Picture of Dorian Gray Preface

Focus: What is Wilde's view of "art" in the preface?
Read Aloud the preface to the novel.

1)Why is this a manifesto about the purpose of Art, the role of the artist, and the value of beauty?
The manifesto about the purpose of Art is the debate about people agreeing whether the piece of art is beautiful or not. The role of the artist is to created debate with his art, when there is critics about his art work and people see it in different ways he has done his job. The value of beauty is just a piece of work to be judged by the spectator, its on how you see it.

2)How does he define both artist and critic?
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. And the critic is who can translate into another manner or new material his impression of beautiful things.

3)What do you think he meant by saying "a book can be moral or immoral?"
"A book can be moral or immoral," It really depends on how the spectator feels about the book. To some one the book might be moral but to another one it might be immoral.

Interpret: "Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril." Is this a warning of some kind?
Every artwork has its own meaning, the spectator should really go further on than the image shown by the artists, but they had look deep into the artwork to understand the message of the art piece.

Interpret: "It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors."
It's the artwork that reflects the spectator and not the life.

Explain whimsical last line: "All art is quite useless."
Art is useless because it serves no other purpose than beauty.

Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

We will complete watching the movie and have a class discussion about the work tomorrow. Students who haven't updated their Blogs with Shakespeare's Othello script will do so as tonight's home assignment. In addition, everyone will research and post the following for 3rd marking period Blog as we are about to embark on Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray:

• Aestheticism: the idea that the pursuit of beauty is the primary goal of art and that art need not reflect any moral, social or religious concerns.
  
• Decadents: refers to a personal trait and, much more commonly, to a state of society. In a person, or used to describe a person's lifestyle, it describes a lack of moral and intellectual discipline.
  
• Victorianism: is the name given to the attitudes, art, and culture of the later two-thirds of the 19th century.
  

Biography on Oscar Wilde.

• Born: October 16, 1854 in Dublin, Ireland
  
• Wilde's education: Oscar was educated at home up to the age of nine. He attended Portora Royal School in Enniskillen, Fermanagh from 1864 to 1871. After leaving Portora, Wilde studied classics at Trinity College, Dublin, from 1871 to 1874. He was granted scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he continued his studies from 1874 to 1878.

• Married: Constance Lloyd

• Children: two sons, Cyril (1885) and Vyvyan (1886)

• Lovers: Florance Balcombe

• Crimes/Arrests: He was arrested for "gross indecency" under Section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 In British legislation of the time, this term implied 'homosexual acts not amounting to buggery'.

• Tragedies:

• Death of wife: 1898 following spinal surgery

• Literary Works:
  

-A Florentine Tragedy
-A Woman of No Importance
-An Ideal Husband, Salome
-The Dutchess of Padua
-The Importance of Being Earnest
-Lady Windermere's Fan

• His Death: November 30, 1900 in Paris, France

• Any particular quotes that you like:

-Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
~Oscar Wilde~

-I am not young enough to know everything.
~Oscar Wilde~

Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde

Othello -final script

Othello

Act V

By:
William Shakespeare





Interpreted By:

Vicky Tzannetis
Arelis Lino
Dominick Heugas
Johnny Mosquera
Helen Astudillo


Act V Scene I


(Iago convinces Roderigo to kill Cassio).
(Iago calls Roderigo and Cassio to meet him in Central Park ; Roderigo at 9:30, Cassio at 10:00).
(Conversation between Iago and Roderigo).

Iago- Glad to see you can come on such short notice.

Roderigo- What’s all this about?

Iago- You know as much as I do; How Cassio is making Othello’s life miserable.
Roderigo- I could just imagine how Othello is feeling.
Iago- I would hate to see him be made into a fool.
Roderigo- We have to do something about it.
-Rustling behind the trees-
Iago- Did you hear that.
Roderigo- Yeah, it came from behind those trees.
(Enter Cassio from behind the trees).
Roderigo- What is he doing here?
Iago- I don’t know, he must have followed us.
Cassio- What the hell have you been smoking, you told me to be here at 10:00

Roderigo- I’m glad you’re here, now we can talk man to man.
(As Cassio and Roderigo are talking, Iago slips away discreetly handing Roderigo a dagger).
Roderigo- What sort of satisfaction do you get out of making Othello’s life miserable?
Cassio- What are you talking about?

Roderigo- You and Desdemona.
Cassio- Me and Desdemona?
Roderigo- Don’t try to act like you’re innocent, be a man! This is tearing Othello apart.
(Roderigo, fustrated, pulls out the knife that Iago gave him).
Cassio- What are you doing? Have you lost your mind?
(Roderigo and Cassio start to fight while Iago is looking from behind a bush. Roderigo stabs Cassio and he fall to the ground. Iago then comes from behind the bushes and stabs Cassio on the back of the leg).

Iago- He had it coming.
Roderigo- He deserved a brutal death for doing this to Othello.
Iago- Let’s got tell Othello it’s done.
(Iago and Roderigo leave to go find Othello).


Iago- Othello, I bring news about Cassio. Rodrigo and I have just made sure he doesn’t interfere with your marriage.
Othello- Really, but how??

Iago- Well, we set him up to come and join us at the park. Rodrigo confronted him and they got into a fight. Cassio is dead but Rodrigo was left badly wounded by Cassio. Come see for yourself.
(Othello and Iago go to the scene of the crime)
Othello (yells)- Good Lord, he is dead! Cassio is dead! Now I must go and deal with Desdemona. She will pay for her affair.

End of Scene 1

Act V Scene II


(Othello walks in Desdemona’s bedchamber watches her sleep at the foot of her bed overcome with his feelings of love. He kisses her one last time and she awakes.)


Desdemona- Baby, why don’t you come to bed it’s already late.

Othello- Say “one final prayer and prepare for your death.”

Desdemona- Baby, tell me what’s going on I don’t know what you’re talking about.

Othello- You know exactly what I’m talking about. You gave my handkerchief to your love Cassio. You know you’re having an affair with him.

Desdemona- You’re the only one I love, you can ask Cassio, and he’ll prove my innocence.

Othello- He’s Dead.

Desdemona- Oh no Othello, what did you do? He was innocent. Kill me tomorrow. Let me live tonight.

Othello- It’s too late

(Othello smoothers Desdemona with his dagger where she lay. Emilia bangs on the door,
reporting to Othello that Cassio
has been injured but he’s still alive. Othello lets Emilia in so
they could talk.)

Desdemona- (faint cry) I’m innocent

Emilia- Who did this to her?

Desdemona- Nobody, I’m fine.

(Desdemona dies)

Emilia- You did this to her, didn’t you?

Othello- No, I could never harm her

Emilia- I don’t believe you!

Othello- Alright, alright I did do it, but what did she expect when she was having an affair with Cassio. You better shut your mouth Emilia, you hear me?

Emilia- (shouts) MURDERER!

(Alerts the whole castle Montano and Iago run into Desdemona Chamber.)

Othello- Desdemona gave Cassio my handkerchief

Emilia- She never did. Iago made me steal it.

(Othello started to comprehend the terrible truth. He lunges at Iago but it’s promptly disarmed by Montano. Iago grabs Emilia and he stabs her, as she lay dying she remembers Desdemona song and confirms that she was chaste and in love with the “cruel Moor”. )

(Iago runs)

Montano(shouting): Hey, Iago where you going?

(Montano runs after Iago leaving Othello by himself, Othello awaits Montano to return with Iago. When they return Othello stabs Iago only to wound him.)

Othello: Oh Cassio forgive me for what I have done to you, and for doubting your innocence.

(Cassio listens)

(Othello pulls out a hidden dagger and stabs himself and falls dying next to Desdemona.)

Othello: “I kiss’d thee ere I kill’d thee. No way but this/ killing myself, to die upon a kiss.”

(Othello dies.)

End of Act V Scene II